The Cecil Whig., 1887-04-30

| they leave their dupeS to gro2n III the
penitentiary. Let them remember that
| justice moves with leaden foot, but sle
strikes with iron hand, and no mans
| station is SO high but that she may bring
| him down. The Maryland ring has
rever had the money, the power, the
| cunning, the will nor the dextcrity of
| the Tweed ring; but Tweed died in the
! peniteEtiary, and his gang became con
vlcts or tugitives from justice Every
| thing Is for sale. In the government by
the bosses everything is for sale Legis-
latlOn is bought and sold, and the huck-
| sters of law and justice stand at the
| State house door aud demand blaekmail.
Every office OF trust and profit created
| by the people for their OWE benefit is
auctioned Off by the bosses Tor their pri-
vate gain. Seats in the Federal Senate
and i'll the House; goyernorshps, clerks
of courts, everything, high or low, must
be paid for by disreputable service or
| for cash-cash preferred. Tie insiduOus
effort is now beng made, by means of
| the Constitutional Convention, to throw
the Judiciary into the market. so as to
sell judgeships for profit. Ard at this
time sealed proposals for the Democratic
nomination Tor governor are being re
highest cash bid will get it. No promi-
uent man stands any chance. Every
man must pay in money CT in subser-
vience for every h0n0r, and every office
1t is this Democratic management and
this Democratic organization we appeal
| to Democrats to overthrow.
THE COST OF CORRUPTION.
! 1t is SAID that ballot-box stuiiing in Bal
| timore is local affair, and is no concern
OF the counties. The delegations from
Baltimore dominate our state conven-
| tons, as they contro! our legislatures
| They make laws, levy taxes and spend
money OF the counties. The fraud and
crime which control Baltimore direct and
manage our state government. 1t is
yearly extending to the counties, and you
will never be safe until you correct it,
Open. red-handed murder and force con-
trolled Baltimore in 1860. You corrected
all that. Secret fraud and perjury list
as effectively control her now. VIII yo1
do less III 1887 than you did in 1860.
| There never has been "a time in the his
tory of the state when the appeal to the
patriotism of the counties was not an
swered by an uprising of the people. 1t
was SO in l17G, in 1896, in 1880. IL surely
will be so i'll 1887. But you cannot afford
to let this corrupt conspiracy govern you
by stuffed ballot box 1t wastes your
substances, 1t steals your taxes, it saps
your prosperity. IL has already cost you
millions. 1t is about to cost you mole
| by our constitution and laws, when a
| debt Is made tax is laid at the same
time to pay the interest on that debt,
and when saved, i'll "A sinking fund, to pay
the debt itself at maturity. Such has
been the settled policy and law of the
state for generation. According, when
mouey has been borrowed by the ssate,
a tax was levied and collected and paid
into the treasury, which ought to have
been saved i'll a sinking fund, and which,
if 1t had been saved, would py this time
have paid off every dollar of the public
debt. Instead of that, the tax is still
paid, and the debt is still owing. This
state would not now owe one dollar OF
debt, nor would there be need for one
dollar of direct tax, if the same had been
complied with. The taxes OF the people
paid by them to pay their debts, have
been squandered i'll jobs, and the people
will have to pay second time the debts
they have already paid.
THE CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO CANAL.
The people have some twenty millions
in the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. 1t is
| their money, raised by their sweat and
toll, and thrift and energy. 1t is a val
liable property, aud the state has always
retained her security on it for money ad-
vapced. She holds mortgages on the
canal itself, and has only allowed money
to be borrowed on the pledge of the tolls
and revenues, SO that in all events the
state would own and control the canal
aud to secure the perpetual existence OF
the canal as working canal, the state
provided that money could always be
borrowed, on tho pledge of its tolls and
revenues, SO as to keep 1t in good run
ming order, which loan should he paid
out OF the first tolls coming in. That is,
that the last money borrowed should be
first repaid. By this means the canal
would never be stopped. 1t could always
borrow money to keep itself going and
in order for work. From 1914 to 1885,
the canal struggled on with this power
to keep itself alive, and it did keep itself
| alive.
But, in 1878, it entered into the able
minds running the Democratic party
and the canal, for revenue only" that
the canal would be exceedingly valuable
as an appendix to the railroad then be-
ing constructed by Senator Henry G..
Davis, from his Elk Garden coal fields to
| Cumberland, for the canal would furnish
a cheap and easy way of extending that
railroad to tide-water. Therefore, in
| 1878, a contract was made between the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company
and the Piedmont and Potomac Railroad
Company securing to the latter eXcep
tional advantages for traffic over the
canal. This was necessary to secure
credit to finish the railroad to the canal
at Cumberland. But this did not secure
the towpath or bed of the canal for the
extension of the railroad. Therefore,
| the same SagaciouS head that had CON
trived the contract between the railroad
and the canal also devised Il mortgage
on the canal prior to the states mort
gage, by which tho whole canal, tolls,
tow path and bed should be mortgaged
to secure 500, 900, with the covenant
that they should be the first lien, and
that no other loan should have predece-
dence over them. For the first time
since 1924, when the present canal was
begun, was the company deprived of the
power OF borrowing money to keep itself
| alive, and for the first time was a mort
gage created prior to the states mort
| gage. An act of Assembly was passed
in 1878 authorizing this mortgage, and
| $500, 900 of bonds were thus placed on
the canal SO as to secure its prompt bank
ruptcy, when the railroad could secure
the wreck and on it come to Jide-water.
THE WRECK OF THE CANAL,
The repair bonds are all gone, and the
| canal a uranLr and This iS l,r a.,